Thursday, June 27, 2013

I know that down in Florida it is easier to get on top of Herons and Egrets. Up here in the north they are very shy and do not tolerate people. A woman approached me on the trail and said that she had a heron walk down the trail in front of her. That’s pretty exciting. So I decide to walk up the trail where she came from and sure enough, I found a big wet bird pooh splat in the middle of the trail.

I walked a little further and there it was! No mind you that I shot this with my 24-84mm lens on a full frame camera. I was pretty close…too close.

It seemed to be onto something, so I swapped over to my 300mm on the cropped sensor camera. It struck and came up with a fish.

It took it down whole, as herons do. You can see the bulge in its neck.

It flew off down the shoreline and did some more hunting. Bam! It’s got another!

Saturday, June 22, 2013

He likes to hang out in the same snag that has our Downy Woodpecker nest. It’s about two holes above Downy’s newly excavated hole. But Papa Downy isn’t having any part of that.

Once the squirrel ducked back inside his hole and out of sight, Papa Downy could get back to feeding the chicks.

The Downy Woodpeckers seem to be doing fine. We can hear the chicks calling from inside the hole. The parents are feeding them from the entrance rather than going inside the hole now. Papa Downy will fly back and forth from the sunflower feeder, so I let it run out during the day. That it forces him to go out and get some bugs for the chicks.

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